Michelle Yeoh named as first iM4U mentor

June 04, 2013

PUTRAJAYA, Jun 4 International film singer Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh has been allocated a initial 1Malaysia For Youth (iM4U) mentor.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today handed a appointment letter to Yeoh during a Prime Ministers Office in a Perdana Putra Complex here.

Also present were Chief Secretary to a Government Datuk Seri Ali Hamsa as well as iM4U Board of Trustrees member Datuk Irmohizam Ibrahim.

iM4U is a brainchild of Najib, who is additionally authority of iM4Us Board of Trustees for Malaysian youth to carry out proffer as well as nation-building activities which can great communities as well as amicable groups.

The iM4U mentorship is to recognize a achievements of outstanding Malaysians who have contributed towards nation-building as well as are purpose models to a youth.

As iM4U mentor, Yeohs initial beginning is to work with iM4U to develop a debate to fight crime where a debate will concentration upon areas where women are quite vulnerable, such as automobile parks, areas nearby LRT stations as well as bus stops.

I was really up in arms when you heard about women, quite traumatised in a automobile parks by waylay thieves. We are starting to pattern ways to lift awareness to make Malaysia safer. Once you have a debate in place, you will make known it, she told reporters here today.

Yeoh, who is additionally Global Ambassador for a Make Roads Safe coordinated by a International Automobile Federation (FIA) Foundation for a Automobile as well as Society, pronounced highway reserve was something tighten to her heart.

I debate around a universe for highway reserve though there is something you wish to do more.

I spoke with a budding apportion as well as he pronounced there were 6,000 people dying of highway accidents yearly. One death is not upon a own as it triggers an effect.

If he was a breadwinner of a family or a young child, which is an immediate loss to great future, she said.

O! n her ap pointment as iM4U mentor, Yeoh pronounced it was her honour to contribute to a country.

He (prime minister) thanked me for being a initial iM4U mentor. you told him it was my honour. you have regularly wanted to come behind to do more...I will be behind to do more. Malaysia is most respected outside a nation as well as you wish a universe to see what a pleasing nation you have.

Next year, you have Visit Malaysia Year as well as youth can help tremendously as well as make it some-more sparkling for people who visit a nation as well as you wish them to feel safe, relax as well as have a great time, she said, adding which it was important to favour a spirit of volunteerism among youths.

Meanwhile, Yeoh confirmed which she would be filming in a movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2.

Im pulling as tough as you can to film it during Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios, she said. Bernama


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